Alta Bates Summit Medical Center

Highland Hospital: With more than 100 years of caring for the communities of the East Bay, Alta Bates Summit Medical Center is a multi-campus regional acute-care medical center with more than 1,000 beds, 5,000 employees and 1,000 active physicians. Alta Bates Summit is recognized as one of the foremost hospitals in the country for clinical excellence, quality and patient safety. The medical center is a 2007 recipient of the HealthGrades Distinguished Hospital award for Clinical Excellence, ranked among the top 5 percent of hospitals in the nation; the Summit campus is one of only 41 hospitals in the country to be named a 2007 Leapfrog Top Hospital in Quality and Safety. Nationally recognized services include a regional stroke center, regional rehabilitation center and chemical dependency program, with nationally designated Centers of Excellence in women’s health and infant care (including a level 3 newborn intensive care unit), orthopedics, oncology and cardiovascular and behavioral health. (The Alta Bates Campus is located at 2450 Ashby Ave. The Herrick Campus is located at 2001 Dwight Way, both in Berkeley.)